Reheating-radiator housing



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CLARENCEHC. SHIP?, F INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

REHEATING-RADIATOR HOUSING.

`Application filed September 15, 1924. Serial No. 737,724.

To all whom t may concern:

Bey it known that I, CLARENCE C. Snrrr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of lndiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Reheating-Radiator Housings, of which the following is a specication.

It is old in the Ventilating art to provide abox through the outside' wall of a house, for the admission of outside air. It is also old to surround the sections of a radiator with vertical walls, open at the top, but connected at the bottom with the wallbox by w means of a base-box which lills the space to the floor. This has not been sanitary because the open top allows children and others to deposit apple cores, particles of food, and chewing gum in it, and allows dust and dirt to enter, all of which drop down into the base-box to accumulate and remain where all of the air lentering through the wall-box comes in contact and is polluted b it.

yThe object of this invention is to support the radiator from the inner wall of the room in which it is located, instead of on legs` reaching to the floor, high enough above the iloor to allow room for the bottom of the box-base, which is in the form of a hinged door, to swing down and dump all forelgn matter out or to be swept olf or scrubbed,it need be, and by such elevation and wall support to make sweeping under the radiator possible and easy.

A further object is to provide a damper in the wallbox and so connect it with said downwardly swinging door of the box-base, that the wall-box damper will always be 410 closed when the box-base door` is open, thereby preventing cold outside air :t'rom blowing or passing directly into the room through the open base-box door.

A further object is to shut oft the outside M5 air, as the occasion requires, and pass the cold air which settles next to the floor of the room, through the radiator and its housing,

thereby to create a Circulation of the air in the room and uniformly heat it.

A further object is to provide easy means for manipulating the damper and the box- -base door, and for holding their given ad ziustnfients.

A further object is to provide means fol` easy and ready assembly or dismemberment of the various units of my device.

I accomplish the above, and other objects which will hereinafter appear, by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1, is a perspective view of a radiator with my invention installed, the wall-box being partly in vertical section. This View shows the damper closed in the wall-box and the. box-base door open. Fig. 2, is a vertical section on the line 2 2 of Fig. l, except that the wall-box damper is open and the box-base door closed, and Fig. 3, is a per spective view of a wooden frame around the inner end of the wall-box sleeve, to which the flange of the box-base is fastened.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views of the drawing.

The radiator 4, comprising as many. sections as may be required, is supported by any suitable means (not shown) from the outside wall 5 of a building in which a room to be heated is located. Passing through the wall opposite and more or less below the lower end of the radiator is a Ventilating opening in which is a box 6, here shown as having storm louvers 7, insect screen 8, and a damper 9, hinged at its upper edge to an offset in the top of the .box formed around the top member of a wooden frame 10. The damper closes in an oblique position against a flange 11, across the bottom of the wallbox. The wooden frame 10 extends along the top, bottom and both ends of the wallbox and to this frame a flange 12 of a wallbox base is fastened by screws or nails 13. The wall-box base is here shown in two separable members 14 and 15, for convenience of assembly, which are joined in a lap-joint 16. A door 17 is hinged at its rear edge to the member' 14., and when shut closes an. openingV under the radiator, part of which is formed in member 14 and the rest in' member 15.

rThe base-box as a whole has an tip-turned end that telescopes in the lower end; ot a sheet-metal radiator housing 18, hereshown as open on top but as surrounding all but the two end coils of the radiator.

Slotted ears 19, in the upper edge ci the base-box, enable the housing and base-boa to be slidingly assembled with stove bolts 20, after which, by tightening the bolts, the assembly will be retained. By making the base-box and the radiator housing each in two separable parts, these parts may be easily removed thereby making access easy to the radiator.

Bolt hooks 30, 30, one at each end of the base-box, are suspended over the bosses formed by the radiator` connections, and nuts on their threaded ends outside of the base-box, provide adjustable means for suspending the base-box from the radiator, and holding the stove bolts 2O in their slots.

Pivoted to ears 21, extendin up from the bottom of the wall-box, is a ent lever 22, the short arm of which is connected by a link 23, with ears on the damper 9. To the long arm of lever 22, a chain 24 is fastened.

This chain passes back of an idler pulley 25, thence up to and over an idler 26 on the back of the housing 18, and thence across and through a hole 27 in the front wall of housing 18, and terminates with a handle 28, of such size that it will not pass through the hole. A link of the chain is dropped in a slot, extending down from the hole, which locks the chain. The long arm of the lever 22 is connected with the door 17 by a spring 29, which elastically holds the door in closed position when the long arm of the lever is elevated by the chain to the position shown in Fig. 2. Y The adjustment of the parts is such that in this closed osition of the door the damper 9 Will be ull open, and conversely, when the damper is closed the door will be released and will drop down by gravity to the open position shown in Fig. l.

1t will be observed that a clear space under the base-box is secured, for sweeping; that refuse matter dropped intothe upper open end of the radiator housing will be deposited upon the door 17, from which it will drop oi or may be swept olf when the door is lowered and open.

lit is also obvious that the 'door will never be open to reheat the air next to the door of the room, except when the outside air is shut-ofi' by the closed damper, and`therefore, that the cold outside air must always pass through the radiator housing to be warmed before it is discharged into the room.

rlhe invention is capable of variations in structure and arrangement and I therefore do not limit myself to the precise form here shown, nor any more than is required by the appended claims.

l elaim:--

1. A vertical radiator housing o en at its top, a horizontal wall-box, a boxase connecting the wall-box with the bottom end of the housing, a door in the bottom of the box-"base, said door being substantially horizontal when closed and swinging downwardly and rearwardly upon opening, a spring amasar normally closing the door, and manuallv operated means for releasing the action ci the spring.

2. A vertical radiator housing open at its top and bottom, and a door hinged on its rear side normally closing the bottom, upon which loose material entering the housing at the top is deposited by gravity and brought into position for easy removal below the housing by swingingly opening the door, automatic means normally closing the door while permitting it always to be manually opened.

3. A vertical radiator housing open at its top and bottom, a wall-box, a box-base telescopically entering the housing and connecting the wall-box with the lower end of the housing, the outer one of said telescoping members having stove-bolts and the inner one having slots in from the end to slidingly receive the bolts, which bolts are then tightened.

4. A radiator, a vertical radiator housing around the radiator open at its top and bottom, a wall-box, a box-base telescopically entering the housing and connecting the Wallbox with the lower end of the housing, the housing having stove-bolts and the box-base having end slots to receive the bolts which are tightened after insertion, the box-base being in two longitudinally divided parts, and bolt hooks suspending the box-base from couplings between sections of the radi'ator.

5. The combination, with a radiator, a radiator housing open at its upper end, an air supply means, a damper in said means, a door hinged below the lower inner wall of the houslng and, which in its closed position is substantially horizontal and closes the lower end of the housing, means for simultaneously closing the damper and opening the door, and means for automatically closing the door and for allowing it to be opened manually independently of said simultaneous damper and door operating means.

G. The combination, with a radiator, a radiator housing open at its upper end, an air supply means, a damper in said means, a door hinged below the lower inner wall of the housing and, which in its closed position is substantially horizontal and closes the lower end of the housing, means for simultaneously closing the damper and opening the door, and a s ring for automatically closing the door an oi allowing it to be opened without closing t. 1 damper.

7. The combination With a radiator, a vertical radiator housing open at its top and bottom, a wall-box, a damper in the box, a box-base connecting the wall box with the lower end ot' the housing, a door in the boxbase substantially horizontal when closed and hinged at its rear edge, manually operafd ill@ means for simultaneously closing the damper and opening the door, and elastic means for automatically closing the door and for allowing it to be opened manually independently of said damper and door operating means. g

8. The combination, with a radiator, a vertical radiator housing open atits top and bottom, a Wall-box, a damper in the box, a box-base connecting the Wall-box with the lower end of the housing, a door in the boxbase substantially horizontal when closed and hinged at its rear edge to the box, a bent lever pivoted'at the bend, a link con nccting one arm of the lever with the damper, elastic means connecting the other arm of the lever with the door and manual means for shifting the lever to change the positions of the damper and door.

9. A radiator housing, .a Wall-box, ya damper in the Wall-box, a box-base connecting the Wall-box with the lower end of the housing,a doorin the box-base hinged at its rear side to swing downwardly and rearwardly in opening, manually controlled means connectin the doorwith the damper for simultaneous y closing the door when the damper is open and the reverse and elastic means for normally closing the door.

Signed at Indianapolis, county of Marion, State of Indiana, this the 9thA day of Sept, 1924.

CLARENCE C. SHIPP. 

